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THE TRINITY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 

THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION 

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THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER 




Delivered at the Columbia Theatre, Washington, D. C. 
September 8th, 1904. 



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Citizens' Individual and 

Collective Pesponsibllltv. 



CONCLUDING WITH A SKETCH OF 

Theodore Roosevelt 

THE MASTER MIND, THE MASTER CHARACTER 



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TX presenting this address to tlie ])ublic, attention is 
called to tlie fact that it was tlie first political 
speech of the campaign of 1904, occurring on the even- 
ing of September 8, 1904, at tl)e Columbia Theatre, at 
the Capital of the Nation, Washington City, District of 
Columbia. It was delivered by the author just exactly 
two months, to the hour, prior to the announcement of 
tiie election of the Republican candidates by an un])re- 
cedented vote of the people, electoral vote being 336 
and a popular plurality of approximately 2,000,000, and 
a majority over all candidates exceeding 1,000,000 votes. 
It was one of the first, if not the first, delivered in the 
country. The grand manifestation of American spirit 
by American voters, the unprecedented electoral and 
popular vote of our country, was cast in the name of 
the Republican organization, and, strange as it may 
seem, upon examination and reading of the address, be- 
ginning at the bottom of page 11 and from here through- 
out to the finish the result of the election, as above cited, 
was predicted by the author, and he assigned the reason 
for his expectation of the unprecedented vote. Atten- 
tion is invited to a letter addressed to President Roose- 
velt printed in the back of this pamphlet, what, in the 
opinion of the author, the unprecedented vote for him 
meant, and other matters concerning the vote. The 



President's reply to this letter is also i>riutc<l 1)l4o\v the 
letter. 

The address was written by tlie autlior under a si)oll 
of inspiration in the month of August, 1904, in his resi- 
dence, the Garfield Flats, Washington, District of Colum- 
bia, being the remodeled residence of our lamented 
American ex-President James A. Garfield. It is the 
only article in American literature explaining to the 
laymen, the boy, the girl, the scholar, the fundamental 
principles of oui Federal or National Government, as 
provided in the Federal Constitution, paramount over 
the several State governments, under their respective 
constitutions, throughout our country or the forty-five 
governments, within and protected, directed and gov- 
erned by the great Federal Government, our country, 
our nation, our Republic. The address contains 4,G00 
words, running from the beginning to the bottom of the 
page 11 is patriotic, or treated from the stam'point of a 
statesman's view, not mentioning any party organiza- 
tion. The address beginning at the bottom of page 11 
to the finish is the record of the Republican organiza- 
tion and the record of their candidates of the camj)aign 
of 1904, and, as hereinbefore noted, it states the reasons 
based on the record of the party and its candidates for 
the anticipation of the unprecedented electoral and popu- 
lar vote which resulted on election day. 

The first 3,000 words, as hereinbefore stated treats of 
our vote, its use and protection and preservation now, 
and for the future in the interest of our country's pros- 
perity and welfare, that the voters as citizens may now, 



and always enjoy the manifold blessings of our laws, 
under our Federal and State Constitutions, and preserve 
our laws for the coining generations of our country. 
What it has cost us to attain our present status as a 
nation, and what we must do to retain our standing 
among governments, with the power of government in 
the people, through their votes, delegated to representa- 
tives in the legislative, judicial and executive depart- 
ments of the Federal and State governments. The neces- 
sit}' of the i)roper education of our people, our rising 
generations in proper methods, the preservation of the 
purity and character of our people, that they will insist 
upon the preservation of good laws, avoid unwise inova- 
tious of proper laws and the eradication of unwise laws, 
and get a clear understanding of the fundamental prin- 
cipals underlying the dual formation of our Govern- 
ment — the Federal Constitution paramount over the 
several State Constitutions, as provided in the Federal 
Constitution of our nation. 

The career of the author precedes the address, follow- 
ing a picture of him, and following the address in the 
back will be found printed what the Washington press 
said about the lecture on September 9, 1904, the day 
following the lecture, and in the rear will be found what 
the press had to say on other occasions about the author's 
speeches and what the author had to say in his speeches 
during the campaign for Representatives elected from 
districts in the State of Maryland and his other speeches 
for President Roosevelt, and also a letter written to 
Chairman Cortelyou on what constitutes a Republican 



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and his reply. At the time the address was delivered at 
the theatre the author had 100 of the addresses printed 
and sent them to his friends, and among those sent, one 
was sent to President Roosevelt, Hon. Henry B. F. Mac- 
farland, president Board of Commissioners of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, and one to ex-Senator Pritchard, now 
Judge U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. 
The letters of acknowledgment of tlie receipt and ap- 
preciation of the address from these gentlemen are 
printed in the back of this address. 

The author made a number of political speeches dur- 
ing the campaign of 1904 for the Republican party in 
the District of Columbia, Brentwood, Bladensburg, State 
of Maryland, and also visited Kensington and Hyatts- 
ville, and went with the Roosevelt and Fairbanks League 
and Junior Old Boys' Marching Club, numbering over 
150 in uniform, with torches, to the big meeting in 
Baltimore, Maryland, addressed by Secretary Taft and 
leading Republican speakers of the State of Maryland. 
The attendance at this meeting numbered between seven 
and eight thousand people. 

The book from the beginning to the bottom of page 
11 sets forth a description of the dual formation under 
the law of the United States of America ; that is to say, 
showing that our Federal Constitution or our Federal 
Government, divided as it is into the legislative, judicial 
and executive departments, respectively, is in so far as 
provided in our Federal Constitution by expression and 
interpretation of the Supreme Court of the United States* 
paramount over the several State governments of our 



Uiiioi), controlled by their several State constitutious, 
divided also into legislative, judicial and executive de- 
partments, respectively, as in their separate constitutions 
provided. It is the only book of the kind in American 
literature tiiat explains the importance of our vote in the 
manner set forth in my book, and that such a book should 
be written with this purpose in view has been suggested 
by many of our American statesmen of the past, but this 
book is the first of the kind to have been written. It is 
suggested that such a book siiould be in every American 
home, and should be a school book in the hands of every 
school pupil and scholar in our country, that the people 
and the rising generation should understand the underly- 
ing principles of their country, all the power of Govern- 
ment eminating from the people. 

Under the Roman republic, the twelve tables, upon 
which the laws of the Roman republic were based, the 
school boy, the youth, the rising generation were re- 
quired by law to commit these twelve tables to memory, 
and if this had continued to have been insisted upon, 
tlie Roman republic probably would have been in ex- 
istence to-day, but the people became ignorant of their 
power, and hence followed the corruption of the Roman 
republic and its downfall. 

There has never been, in the annals of human affairs, 
such dual formation, such happily constructed govern- 
ment, for individual happiness and prosperity, liberty 
of thought and action and the protection of property 
rights of the citizen in their own country and all of 



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their rights throughout the nations of the earth, as en- 
joyed by tlie people of the United States of America. 
Tliis is truly a country where the laws eminate from the 
people, and they must understand the value and mean- 
ing and power of their vote, and therefore must under- 
stand the principles of their laws to properly use their 
vote. 



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Mr. GEORGE W. DREW. 



(Jeorge Washington Drew. 

Solomon Drew, of au old English family of Cornwall, England,, 
came to America in the year 1820, and located in Alexandria City, 
State of Virginia, and soon thereafter moved to Washington City, 
District of Columbia, where his son William O. Drew, was born 
on the 4th of September, 1838, and this son entered the service of 
the war of 1861 as a union soldier, as first lieutenant, in three months 
service as captain. Company C, 2d Regiment D. C, promoted to 
major and then promoted to lieutenant-colonel and served through- 
out the war. Mr. Drew was in the battles of second Bull Run, 
battle of Antietem and a number of other engagements. Colonel 
Drew married a young lady of an old Virginia family and of this 
union, the seventh child was a boy, born in Georgetown, District 
of Columbia, a short time after the fall of Richmond, 6th of July, 
1865, and this child was christened George Washington Drew, the 
subject of this article. This son was sent to the public school of the 
District of Columbia, but was taken from the public school and sent 
to a private school conducted by Rev. P. Hall Sweet, and the first 
year was awarded a gold medal for scholarship. He again entered 
the public school and continued his schooling through the eighth 
grade, or grammer school, and then went to work in the Washing- 
ton branch of Bateman & Company, bankers and brokers, witli 
main office in New York City. The branch office was conducted 
by Gen. W. W. Dudley, ex-Commissioner of Pensions. While work- 
ing here during the day he went at night to the Linthicnm College- 
in Georgetown, D. C. At the closing exercises of this college at the 
end of his first year was awarded the second scholarship prize of $30 
and at the end of his second year was awarded the first scholarship 
prize of $.50 in gold. After his graduation at this college, he wafr 
appointed by the board of trustees assistant professor of the depart- 
ment in mechanical and architectual drawing and conducted the- 
class for two years. Immediately after finishing at this college he 
attended at night the Corcoran Art and Scientific School of th& 
Columbian University, now named George Washington Univer- 
sity, and attending here for three years, working during the day- 
as chief clerk of the Washington Architectural Iron and Bridge 
Works. While working for the company he designed a boiler 
front, a steam water guage and a guage water board, and the same 
were patented by Mr. Drew and used thereafter by the company. 
He resigned his position with the company and entered the law 
oflfices of Mr. James Lowndes and Mr. Linden Kent, division 



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counsel of the Southern Railway, located in the District of Col- 
umbia, and attended the law department of the Columbian, now 
George Washington University, and after graduating at this college 
and admission to the bar of the Supreme Court and the Court of Ap- 
peals of the District of Columbia, began the active practice of 
his profession. ]Mr. Drew has since been admitted to practice 
before the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court of 
the State of Maryland, and the circuit of Alexandria County, Va., 
and is in active practice before said courts. He has been counsel 
in some large damage suits and other cases, in equity and law and 
several noted criminal cases. Besides one gold medal and the two 
prizes of $30 and $50 in gold for scholarships, Mr. Drew received 
when a boy five silver medals, for punctuality in attending school . 
He has been President of the Christian Endeavor of the Presby- 
terian Church, President of the Literary Society of the Young 
Men's Christian Association, and is now President of the Round 
Table Club, composed of members of the District of Columbia Bar. 
Mr. Drew has delivered addresses before this club on "Capital 
Punishment," " Pension Legislation of the World," and other sub- 
jects. He delivered the 4th of July oration at Mt. Pleasant in 
Washington, D. C, in 1893, and one in Prince George's County, 
Md., in 1897. He was presented by the National Rifles of Washing- 
ton, D. C, with a veterans' medal for having served five years, and 
was a member of Militia of the D. C. 

Mr. Drew is a member of George A. Custer Camp of Sous of 
Veterans, is a member of John A. Logan Camp of the Union Vet, 
erans' Union, and is a master mason, member of Osiris Lodge, No- 
26, F. & A. M., and is a Royal Arch Mason in Hiram Chapter. 
No. 10. R. A. M. Mr. Drew delivered the address of welcome on 
the visitation of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia to 
Hiram Lodge in 1899. 

On September 8th, 1904, Mr. Drew delivered an address at the 
Columbia Theatre, Washington City, District of Columbia, on 
"Our Vote, the Citizen's Individual and Collective Responsibility 
to his Country," concluding with our Pre.sident, Theodore Roose- 
velt, the master mind and more than that the master character, 
and shortly after this became a member of The Roosevelt and 
Fairbanks League and The Junior Old Boy's Marching Club, and 
took an active part in the political campaign of 1904, and made a 
number of political speeches for the republican party in Maryland 
and the District of Columbia, which are printed in this pamphlet 
and referred to in its introduction. On the night of the election, 
November 8th, 1904, after the result was announced, Mr. Drew, 



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as a member ^of the committee of the Roosevelt and Fairbanks 
League and Junior Old Boy's Marching Club, went with them to 
the White House and congratulated the President, and upon his 
request the President addressed the Boys from the steps that night, 
being notable— as his first speech after his election. 

On December 9, 1904, the Roosevelt and Fairbanks Club and 
Junior Old Boy's Republican Olub, held a grand ratification of the 
election of President Roosevelt and Vice-President Fairbanks and 
Mr. Drew presided as secretary and read letters from prominent 
republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives, and read 
a letter from Chairman Oortelyou commending the club for its 
work during the campaign. He was a member of the Civic Com- 
mittee of the Inaugural Ceremonies of President Roosevelt and 
Yice-President Fairbanks. 



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ADDRKSS 

Delivered at Columbia Theatre, Washington, D. C, 
September 8th, 1904. 



Our Vote. 

The Citizen's Individual and Collective Responsi- 
bility to his country — concludingiwith our 
President, Theodore Roosevelt, the 
master mind and more than 
that the master character. 



To MY Fellow Countrymen : 

What is our duty as citizens, individually and col- 
lectively, to our great country ? A country for its success 
securing to its individual citizen, happiness, personal 
liberty, freedom of thought and the protection of prop- 
erty rights unparalleled in the annals of human affairs. 
Why does it surpass all previous formations of govern- 
ments? The reason is to be found in an examination 
of its dual formation, the Federal and State government 
of its citizens under its wisely constructed and immortal 
Federal Constitution, adopted in convention assembled, 
by the representatives of the people, after much discus- 
sion and deliberation, based upon the great principles 
advocated by our famous forefathers, Alexander Hamil- 
ton and Thomas Jefferson, and the adoption of these 
principles secured to us for all times our great country, 
founded by our immortal AVashington, upheld in for- 



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€ign countries by our able diplomat, Benjamin Frank- 
lin, saved by our inspired Lincoln and protected by our 
persuasive McKinley, and to-day guided by our sincere 
and brave Roosevelt; a dashing chariot of fire, a flash 
of lightning from the clouds that purifies the atmos- 
phere. A man of iron nerve and fearless courage, stand- 
ing by principle always, in every instance and every 
act, and fearlessly and with the voice and manner of a 
true statesman that he is, administering the laws of our 
country for the benefit and welfare of the people, as he 
conceives the duty of his great office the Chief Executive 
of our great Republic. 

Our manifold blessings, secured by our laws based on 
the great principles of our Constitution, though, will 
only be preserved and continued by the wisdom of the 
people in the proper use of the ballot— the righteous dis- 
position of the vote by the voter— the individual citizen 
and collectively in selecting and electing wise repre- 
sentatives, to prepare, make, alter and execute the laws. 
Thus properly viewed we can but conclude that to be a 
true and patriotic American, we must feel our great in- 
dividual responsibility, and for ourselves and posterity 
wisely do our individual duty to our country and right- 
eously use our vote. 

No man living in this country entitled legally to vote, 
has a moral right to refrain from casting that vote. If 
he does not, he fails in doing his solemn duty to his 
country, to his fellow citizen, and to his God. No human 
being has a legal or moral right to the blessings of law, 
be it that of God or man, unless he complies with that 



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law. The failure aiul downfall of all forms of govern- 
ment, like the sin and corruption of individuals, has 
been the attempted administration of unwise laws and 
the lack of the enforcement of good ones. Untold mil- 
lions of human beings have been sacrificed owing to bad 
laws, and millions have been willing to give their lives 
to protect and preserve good ones. 

Our Federal Constitution, paramount over every State 
constitution, the basis of our laws throughout our 
country and the wise administration of them, has given 
to us manifold blessings during the six score and eight 
years of our country's history undreamed of in the 
records of human governments. Never let us forget, 
however, that these laws emanated from the people, 
through representatives elected by their votes, and that 
the people can only preserve and protect that Constitu- 
tion, and always be secure in the use of the vote, by the 
proper use of the ballot, in electing proper men to the 
legislative, judicial and executive branches of our 
country. The voice of the people is made effective only 
through their votes. The votes of the people are the 
approval or disapproval of the Federal or State branch 
of the administration of their laws, delegated by the 
people to their representatives, respectively, under our 
dual system. 

It is the duty, both legal and moral, of each and every 
true American to cast his vote and to always acquaint 
themselves, by every means in their power, with the 
fitness of the individual for whom he votes, and it 
is the duty of ever}'^ citizen to his country to know for 



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what he votes, equally also the duty of their trustees to 
whom they delegate their rights with their power. This 
is the means — the only means — by which the people can 
exert their rightful power in selecting and electing 
from their number the proper individual to administer, 
properly alter and preserve the wise principles of their 
laws and continue to enjoy the fruits thereof, and make 
our country progressive among the nations of the earth 
and set the wise examples to follow, to their children, the 
rising generation of our country, the coming voters. 

Ceaseless activity is the law of the universe and we 
must degenerate or progress, and to enjoy the benefit 
and manifold blessings of the law we must kee^) in har- 
mony with the inevitable motion of the law. 

Nature is ever just and fair and we must always ad- 
just our laws accordingly, and untold blessings will fol- 
low. 

The proper study of the history of the past events of 
governments will increase our love of wise laws and 
make us mindful of unwise laws, and should ever make 
us feel our individual responsibility as citizens, from 
whom the laws of our country collectively emanate — the 
people — father, son, brother and nephew, the voters of 
our country, the protectors of mother and wife, daughter 
and sweetheart. Our vote means all this. Do we real- 
ize our great responsibility as citizens in the use of our 
'vote ? 

Our vote means the preservation or eventual destruc- 
tion of all that is near and dear to us— our homes, our 
country, our character. Shall we, the people, properly 



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discharge our duty? I ask this s:reatest of questions to 
all citizens of our country, in the name of our immortal 
■declaration to the nations of the world made in 1776. 
" Our Declaration of Independence," the beginning of 
peace on earth, good will to men. Yes, men ! The 
Gods and Goddesses of this planet — if the}' will to be — 
through the power of God made manifest through tliem^ 
by the grace of God. America! Americans!!! Our 
vote ! Our power ! The people — the law of our country ! 
Shall it continue? Shall it progress, now and forever, 
for ourselves and posterity ? — the promised land, the be- 
ginning of the millenium. We, the people, we can speak. 
I ask, will our voice be heard over this broad land of 
ours in no mistaken sound and protect our Liberty ? 
Liberty! Liberty!! Liberty!!! Oh! how sweet; oh! 
how sweet the guaranty of our country. Our vote, our 
power, our Liberty! Awake ! awake ! tlie people must 
ever be to protect the Liberty of our country. 

The power of the great Jehovah is our power, if we 
•will it to be, and through the grace of God use His power, 
our power — the vote — the power of the people, the pro- 
tector of our liberty. May the grace of God ever be with 
us in our use of this great blessing — our heritage — our 
vote. May the good use we make of our vote be an ever- 
living evidence of our gratitude to our forefathers for its 
heritage and live as an example to posterity to forever 
protect it and receive and enjoy its blessings. Our 
■country — our republic — our great union of states — pro- 
tected and guided among the great nations of the earth 
by her sons, through the Federal brancli of our unpar- 



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ailed system of government, administered by chosen 
officers through the votes of the people, the foundation 
of the power of our government. 

Our towns, counties, cities and states making and 
enjoying their own domestic laws — the liberty of the 
people, under the State constitutions, respectively, made, 
guided and protected under the Constitution of the 
United States, our great country, our republic. The 
gem of the ages among the nations of the past and a liv- 
ing example for the guidance of the people of the earth, 
now and forever, if protected by the people, through the 
use of their power, their votes. Let the people of no 
country despair; all power of governments belong to 
the people, and this divine given idea is steadily grow- 
ing throughout the civilized population of the earth, and 
will eventually work its destined end, placing the right 
to govern where it belongs, in the hands of the people, 
and through their votes in their chosen representatives. 

In this enlightened age of the discovering of the laws 
of nature, the application of which adding so many bless- 
ings to the comforts and conveniences of human life, 
the means now of lighting communication throughout 
the civilized world, and the various methods of rapid 
transportation of the people and goods of different climes 
has made and is further tending to make one large com- 
munity of the whole human family, and this, our glorious 
republic, with its great power in the hands of the people, 
controlling the country through their votes, is tiie hope 
and inspiration of the civilized world, and most assuredly, 
in the distant future, will place the power of all govern- 



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merits throughout the civilized world where it should 
and of a right ought to be — in the hands of the people — 
the governed, through their chosen representatives. 

Our system of government, of the people, delegated by 
the people, and for the equal rights, under the law for 
each and every citizen, in the interest of the whole 
people, has long ceased to be an experiment among the 
nations of the world, but will never cease to need the 
wisdom and protection of the people for the wise ad- 
ministration of the laws of our countr3\ 

That the people may ever increase in wisdom and 
understanding, to enable us to protect our laws, we must 
insist upon the proper education and careful training of 
every succeeding generation of our country in every- 
thing that tends to produce good, worthy law-abiding 
citizens of all communities throughout our system of 
government. We must insist upon a just enforcement 
of our laws, that our humblest citizen may enjoy equal 
})rotection of the laws of his countr}^ and insist through 
the whole power of our country that his lawful rights 
may be respected throughout the nations of the whole 
world. This great and mighty responsibility is that of 
each and every citizen of our great union of States and 
through their votes, collectively, tlieir great power, the 
happiness and prosperity and welfare of our country de- 
pends, and just so far as they fail in doing their duty 
with their vote, the citizen contributes to the failure to 
protect our liberty. 

Tt is a living fact that our Republic is unexampled in 
the history of the human race, but let us ever remember 



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that it cost our fathers and forefathers many an anxious 
moment and the sacrifice of many brave and valuable 
lives and many a broken heart of mother and father, 
brother and sister, wife and sweetheart to demonstrate 
and defend before the world the living words of truth 
set forth in our Declaration of Independence, announced 
in 1776, and the words of truth in this great instrument 
rang with a sweet voice throughout the civilized nations 
of the earth, with the brilliancy of a flash of lightning 
from the clouds, and filled the hearts of the people of the 
earth with a hope and inspiration like the declaration 
announced in the sermon on the mount by the son of 
Nazareth. 

It costs all this to attain, establish and retain our 
country, and during the first century of our countr^f's 
history we have successfully passed through the wars of 
1812, 1846, and the bloodiest war in the history of the 
world, the rebellion of 1861, and yet another war in 1898, 
and still we are a united and happy people, the United 
States of America, first in war, first in peace, first in the 
enlightenment of the human race, guided and protected 
by the Star Spangled Banner and its stripes of purity 
and light, stimulating our every hope, now and for the 
future welfare and prosperity of the coming generations 
of our land. 

History of nations of the past, like the career of 
individuals, we observe often attain their desired end, 
but do not retain and hold that which they attain, and 
the reasons of their downfall with nations like indi- 
viduals, upon examination, are often apparent. This is 
ever the living question with the people of this country. 



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Do we realize our individual and collective responsibility 
to our country? Do we recognize our obligations to the 
past and recognize our duty, as citizens, to the future 
generations of our country ? 

What does our vote as citizens mean ? Why, that we 
are individual members of a great association — our Coun- 
try, our Nation, our Republic. What shall we do, as 
citizens, with our vote? How will we cast it? For 
whom shall we cast it ? I ask as a single member, holder 
of one vote, for the benefit of the association of my 
country, the land of my birth, my nation, the United 
States of America. 

Why, who is the man, and what is the man, who is 
selected for election to the legislature to take part in 
making the laws of my town, my county, my city; my 
State, my country? What is his character ? What does 
he represent ? Is he free to act and do his duty, under 
the law, consciously to the town, county, city. State and 
country? These are the questions that every citizen, 
ever}' voter, has a rigut, and it is his duty to inquire 
and ascertain. If any voter does less, he fails in his duty 
and responsibility as a citizen and in helping to promote 
and make good citizenship. Let the voters, the citizens 
of every community over our country, insist upon the 
right, justice and honor in every instance in which they 
have a vote, both in public and private affairs, and we 
will to the end of time enjoy the great exponents of our 
eonstitution under the law — life and liberty and the pro- 
tection of property. 

Educate the children of our country in everything 



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that tends to develop their character, their love of justice 
and mercy, their sense of honor, their regard for integ- 
rity, their sense of duty to others and to appreciate the 
necessity for law among men, being manifest for the 
existence of everything known to men from the begin- 
ning of time. We will then have progress in our citizen- 
ship and forever avoid degeneracy of our people, as the 
history of the downfallen nations of the past ages so sadly 
record. The future citizen of America will then appre- 
ciate his vote and feel a sense of responsibility and use 
it properly. 

Educate the girls in every particular with the boys— 
the future mothers of our voters and likely some day, 
not far distant, among our our voters. In every sense, 
however, whether they be voters direct or not, their influ- 
ence in every community is unfathomed, and every self- 
respecting man wants to honor and respect them, care 
for and protect them. 

Educate our citizens with the purpose in view that 
they may get understanding. For of all things, the 
proper understanding is the thing most needed for good 
citizenship. Teach them to observe carefully what exists 
and is going on in the community around them, and 
study and carefully note wherein improvements may 
be safely made, not selfishly, but for the good of all, and 
followed by wise mediation and reflection, and good 
citizenship will be the fruit of such education and unwise 
innovation will be avoided, and the good in things and 
]nen that exist will be retained and correctly estimated 
and appreciated, and men and things that are praise- 



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worth}' will be praised, and that which is blameworthy 
will be blamed and eradicated. By this means the peo- 
ple will learn to think ! think ! think ! and correctly 
learn and know what their vote means, their individual 
responsibility to their countr\' and its proper use per- 
sonally and collectively, and the representatives of the 
people will ever be of a high order in every communit}' 
throughout our country, and we will always enjoy the 
wisdom of the good laws that will be enacted for the 
common good of all, by representatives of the people, so 
trained and educated. We want knowledge linked with 
proper development and understanding for ready use> 
and application of it for the common good. 

Dignify labor of all kinds and the laborer will be a 
dignified and self-respecting and respected and worthy 
citizen in every community, thus adding to the economy, 
comfort, convenience, happiness of human life, and 
competition will then mean progress for the common 
good of the human race. Physical and mental activity 
of men begets happiness because it is the natural law of 
his being, alike everything that exists or ever had exist- 
ence. We must ever do something to produce a desired 
end, or put in operation the proper working of the law, 
and we obtain a result. We must know what to do and 
how to do it, if we are to know in advance what the 
result will be. Here is where knowledge is valuable to 
produce or to avoid the working of the law. Knowledge 
and experience in its application produces perfection, 
and perfection is the end of the law. 

Our system of government so far in the histoiy of the 



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human race is the best known to man Tor the individual 
happiness and his protection. We learn from the history 
of the downfallen nations of the past the necessity of 
keeping the character of the people, our power, pure, 
upright, just and honorable toward one another, if we 
hope to continue and progress as a nation, now, and be 
one people under our system of government. Let the 
people value their votes. 

All government over the universe, of what we call 
matter and mind, is by the majority of the best authori- 
ties, said to be of devine ordination and the act of the 
people through the power of God, made manifest through 
them, constitutes the form of our government — we call 
the Constitution. Besides the constitutions of the several 
States, there is also the Constitution of the United States, 
with paramount authority over the people of all the 
States. By that Constitution certain specified powers are 
delegated to a general or federal government — all pow- 
ers not delegated being reserved to the States or to the 
})eople. The special powers thus delegated are princi- 
pally such as concern the foreign relations of our country, 
the rights of war and peace, and the regulations of foreign 
and domestic commerce, and other objects most appro- 
priately assigned to the general government. The gov- 
ernment invested with the exercise of these powers is 
distributed into legislative, executive and judicial depart- 
ments. The legislative is divided into two branches — a 
Senate, composed of two members from each State, elected 
by the legislature thereof, and a House, composed of rep- 
resentatives from each State in proportion to their respec- 



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tive numbers. The voters in each State are such persons 
as by the constitution thereof are the electors of the 
most numerous branch of the State legislature. The 
executive power is vested in a President, who is chosen 
by electors chosen in each State as its legislature may 
l)rescribe — each State being entitled to as many electors 
as it has Senators and Representatives. He has a quali- 
fied veto upon the acts of the legislature. The judicial 
])Ower is vested in a Supreme Court and such inferior 
courts as may be established by law — the judges receiv- 
ing their appointments from the President by and with 
the advice and consent of the Senate, and holding their 
office by the tenure of good behavior. 

The Republican convention convened in the city of 
Chicago on the 21st day of June, 1904, upheld the record 
of the great State of Illinois and that of its great city in 
knowing what work it ought to do, in knowing how it 
ought to be done, and the convention of assembled mem- 
bers of the party of America, in the interest of each and 
every American, accomplished its great work and upheld 
the history of the great Republican party and nominated 
as the candidate of the Republican party Theodore 
Roosevelt for our President, and it is self-evident from 
the record of his administration of the laws of our country 
and his whole official life that he knows how to do his 
great work as our President, and he will continue, in the 
interest of our country after his election in November, 
1904, to do the work of his great office as our Presid.ent. 

The address made by the great chairman of that Con- 
vention, Elihu Root, son and citizen of the great State 



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of New York and also ex-Secretary of War, like the great 
lawyer he is, and the great character in delineating the 
history of the Republican party and its candidates, based 
his great argument only on the facts, well known to the 
people of our country, and the voters of our country in 
an unprecedented majority will continue in power tlie 
Republican party and its candidate, as the trustees of 
their great rights secured to them under their Federal 
constitution, from which the respective State constitu- 
tions are made and protected by the judicial power under 
the Federal constitution for the people of our whole 
country. 

Whatever the difference there may exist on different 
questions between the North, South, East and West of 
our country, the people of our whole country, in large 
majority, will declare by their votes on the 8th day of 
November, 1904, for the candidates and the party whose 
record and the record of his party in the past, now, and 
for the future, represent the best interests for the con- 
tinued prosperity and progressive spirit of the American 
Republic, the United States, now and forever, under the 
Star Spangled Banner. The Republican party has nomi - 
nated its candidates and only ask and appeal to the 
American people, in the name of our country, for the 
good of each and all, for an examination of its record in 
the past, and the record of its candidates and the ad- 
ministration of the Republican party of our country by 
our beloved and departed friend and President, William 
McKinley, and since his sad death, by our brave and 
courageous American, our present Chief Executive, and 



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now the candidate of the Republican party. What has 
he done during his administration of the laws of his 
country ? Why, his record and the record of his ad- 
ministration is an open book, and its examination can 
only increase the patriotism and pride of every Ameri- 
can citizen for his American spirit and American 
methods in executing; our laws for the prosperity and 
general welfare of our country, under his administration 
of our laws by his great executive ability and the influ- 
ence of his great moral character. With a like political 
activity that he displayed as the Governor of the State 
of New York, and with the same honesty, justice and 
great executive ability in all the public offices that he 
has so ably filled with honor and prosperity for the wel- 
fare of the people, these qualities he brought and has 
unceasingly used, as our Chief Executive, for the good 
of our nation and the individual happiness and progress 
of our people. He created great reforms as Governor of 
New York State and his administration of the State was 
a great success, and together with his projects won the 
approval and adoption of the people of his State, and as 
the Chief Executive of our nation he has accomplished 
great things for the good of our people, and will con- 
tinue to do so now and after his election. His enforce- 
ment through his Attorney-General of the Department 
of Justice of our laws against trusts, breaking the dead- 
lock in the anthracite coal strike, well known to the 
people of our country, who so greatly benefitted by his 
great moral character, exerted in this matter as well as 
all other matters of a like nature, as the trustee of tiie 



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American people, in the execution of his trust, for his 
beneficiaries, the American people, the working people, 
the farmer, the business interest of the whole people, the 
professional people, the business man of every calling in 
the interest of the people, in every section of our great 
country, and to-day he is ready, willing and able to con- 
tinue his great trust in the interest of each and every 
citizen of our nation, and asks the approval of his fellow- 
citizens, and they will respond like true Americans with 
true Amerioan spirit at the polls and elect him by an 
unprecedented majority, by the popular vote of our 
country and by the electoral vote for our President. He 
has employed arbitration for the settlement of the 
differences between capital and labor, in the interest of 
his country's welfare and prosperity, for both the laborer 
and the capitalist. Let the business interest of the 
whole country take note of the business manner of the 
organization of the Republican Convention, which con- 
vened in Chicago on June 21, 1904, and the business 
despatch and facility of matters before that Convention,, 
how its great and able leaders acted and what they had 
to say, based on facts, about the record of their party 
and their candidates— an open book for the study of the 
people of our country, that they may righteously decide 
how they shall and will cast their votes, in the interest 
of our country, for the continued welfare and prosperity 
of the people of our nation. 

Our President, Theodore Roosevelt, the candidate of 
the Republican party for election to continue as our 
President, does things with the light of a sovereign intel- 



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•ligence and vast knowledge. He has a mastei mind, 
and more than that, he is a master character, sparkling 
gems in his developed physique worthy the name— the 
temple of his God and the spirit of God dwelleth in 
him. He is a great American and a maker of political 
history of America worthy of a great American ; His 
admirable qualities— honesty, sincerity and frankness, 
invincible vigor, master mind and master character — 
make him an ideal American spirit. The hearts of all 
true Americans are with him and by an unprecedented 
majority of votes will select him again to be the Com- 
mander-in-Chief of our Army and Navy with confidence 
that he will preserve the peace and steady progress of 
our country, ever ready as our great captain to defend 
our honor and integrity always and everywhere. 

George W. Drew. 



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Extract from Post September 9, 1904. 

" Our Vote " was the subject of an address delivered, 
at Columbia Theater last night by George Washington 
Drew, a member of the District bar. The address was 
in the nature of an argument on the duty of the indi- 
vidual citizen to exercise the right of suffrage, and Mr. 
Drew declared that " no man living in tliis country en- 
titled legally to vote has a moral right to refrain from 
casting that vote." The lecture was closed with a glow- 
ing tribute to the personal character, public career, and 
political administration of President Roosevelt. A sec- 
tion of the Marine Band rendered music during the 
evening, and the speaker was introduced by Attorney 
J. Miller Kenyon. 

"Ceaseless activity," Mr. Drew declared, " is the law 
of the universe and we must degenerate or progress. To 
enjoy the benefit and manifold blessings of the law we 
must keep in harmony with the inevitable motive of 
the law. The voice of the people is made effective only 
through their votes. The votes of the people are the 
approval or disapproval of the Federal or State branch 
of the administration of their laws, delegated by the 
people to their representatives. 

"The proper study," he said, " of the history of the 
past events of government will increase our love of wise 
laws and make us mindful of unwise laws, and should 
ever make us feel our individual responsibility as citi- 
zens, from whom the laws of our country collectively 
emanate. 

"Our vote means the preservation or eventual de- 
struction of all that is near and dear to us — our homes, 
our country, our character. Our system of government 
of the people, delegated by the people, and for the equal 
rights, under the law, for each and every citizen, in the 



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interest of the whole people, has long ceased to be an 
experiment among the nations of the world, but will 
never cease to need the wisdom and protection of the 
people for the wise administration of the laws of our 
country." 

Referring to the last RepubUcan convention, Mr. Drew- 
asserted that it "upheld the record of the great State of 
Illinois and that of its great city in knowing what work 
it ought to do, and in knowing how it ought to he done." 

The speaker characterized tlie record of Mr. Roosevelt 
in the Presidential chair as " an open book," and he said 
that " its examination can only increase the patriotism 
and pride of every American citizen for his American 
spirit and American methods. He has a master mind, 
and more tlian that, he is a master character, sparkling 
gems in his developed physique worthy the name — the 
temple of his God and the spirit of his God dwelleth 
in him. He is a great American and a maker of poHti- 
«al history of America worthy of a great American." 



Extract from Star, September 9, 1904. 

George Washington Drew, a member of the District 
bar, delivered an address last evening at the Columbia 
Theater on " Our Vote." His theme was the moral ob- 
ligation resting upon every American citizen to cast his 
ballot. In the latter part of the address the speaker 
paid higli tribute to the private character and public 
c areer of President Roosevelt. 

He said in part : 

" Ceaseless activity is the law of the universe and we 
must degenerate or progress. To enjoy the benefit and 
manifold blessings of the law we must keep in harmony 
•with the inevitable motive of the law. The voice of the 



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people is made effective only througli their votes. The 
votes of the people are the approval or disapproval of 
the Federal or State branch of the administration of 
their laws, delegated by the people to their representa- 
tives. 

" The proper study of the history of the past events of 
government will increase our love of wise laws and 
make us mindful of unwise laws, and should ever make 
us feel our individual responsibility as citizens, from 
whom the laws of our country collectively emanate. 

" Our vote means the preservation or eventual destruc- 
tion of all that is near and dear to us — our homes, our 
country, our character. Our system of government of 
the people, delegated by the people, and for the equal 
rights, under the law, for each and every citizen, in the 
interest of the whole people, has long ceased to be an 
experiment among the nations of the world, but will 
never cease to need the wisdom and protection of the 
people for the wise administration of the laws of our 
country." 

Referring to the record of Mr. Roosevelt in the Presi- 
dential chair, the speaker said : 

"Its examination can only increase the patriotism 
and pride of every American citizen for his American 
spirit and American methods. He has a master mind, 
and more than that, he is a master character, sparkling 
gems in his developed physique worthy the name— the 
temple of his God and the spirit of God dwelleth in him. 
He is a great American and a maker of political history 
of America worthy of a great American." 

Mr. Drew was introduced by Attorney J. Miller Ken- 
yon. A section of the Marine Band furnished music 
during the evening. 



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White House, 
Washington, D. C, September 14, 1904. 
My Dear Sir : 

Your favor of the 13tli instant has been received, and 
the President wishes me to thank you for tlie courtesy 
of its enclosure. 

Very truly, yours, 

Wm. Loeb, Jr., 
Secretary to the President. 
Mr. Geo. W. Drew, 

620 F street N. W., 

Washington, D. C. 



Judges' Chambers, 
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 
Fourth Circuit, 
AsHEViLLK, N. C, September 26, 1904. 
Geo. W. Drew, Esq., 

The Garfield, 

Washington, D. C. 
My Dear Sir: 

I desire to thank you for a copy of your excellent 
address which you recently delivered in behalf of our 
President. It is a speech that will do much good, and I 
congratulate you on the manner in which you discuss 
the issues of the day. 

With best wishes, I am, sincerely yoUrs, 

J. A. Pritchard. 



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Bristol, R. L, September 1, 1904. 



Dear Mr. Drew: 



I am greatly obliged to you for your unique and inter- 
esting address. Full of patriotic feeling and sound phil- 
osophy. You are certainly to be congratulated upon it. 
With kindest regards, sincerely yours, 

Henry B. F. Macfarland. 
George Washington Drew, 

Washington, D. C. 



Mass Meeting for Mudd. 

Special to Post. 

Bladensburg, Md., October 27, 1904. 

A large gathering of Republican voters assembled at 
Bladensburg to-night at a meeting held at the historic 
George Washington 'house, under the auspices of the 
Bladensburg and Beltsville Roosevelt and Fairbanks and 
Sydney E. Mudd Campaign clubs. A large delegation 
from the Junior Old Boys' Marching Club, of Washing- 
ton, D. C, together with a delegation of the Roosevelt and 
Fairbanks League, came from the Capital about 7 o'clock, 
was met at a point near Hyattsville with a band of and 
music, and escorted to the old Washington house, which 
in colonial days was the headquarters of Gen. Washing- 
ton. The old mansion was profusely decorated with the 
national emblem, and from the veranda the speakers 
talked to the crowd. 

Judge George W. Drew, a member of the District bar, 
spoke on the issues existing in Mr. Mudd's district. He 
praised Mr. Mudd's course while in Congress, and said 
notwithstanding the number of Mudds on the ticket, he 
would be re-elected. 



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Held Rally at Brentwood. 

Special to Post. 

Brentwood, Md., October 12, 1904. 

There was a large gathering of Republicans at this 
place to-night, the occasion being the formation of a 
Roosevelt and F'airbanks and Sidney Mudd Campaign 
Club. 

A large delegation of the Roosevelt and Fairbanks 
League, of Washington, D. C, was present, as was also a 
delegation of the "Junior Old Boys'" Marching Club of 
Washington. George W. Drew, of the District of Colum- 
bia, was the principal speaker, and for over an hour held 
the crowd in close attention in an able portrayal of the 
character of President Roosevelt, and a discussion of the 
policj' of the Republican party. 



November 21, 1904. 

The President, 

White House, 

Washington, D. C. 
Dear Mr. President : 

As a citizen of our country, a member of the legal 
profession of my country, a resident of the District of 
Columbia, and as a member of the Roosevelt and Fair- 
banks League and Junior Old Boys' Marching Republi- 
can Club, I most respectfully submit to your kind con- 
sideration of my views on the appointment of the Chair- 
man of the Inaugural (Committee, as follows: 

Article 11, Section 1, of the Federal Constitution of our 
country provides, " The executive power shall be vested 
in a President of the United States of America. He 



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shall hold his office during the term of four years and 
together with the Vice President chosen for the same 
term, be elected as follows: 

" Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legis- 
lature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to 
the whole number of Senators and Representatives to 
which the State may be entitled in the Congress. * * * 

" The electors shall meet in their respective States and 
vote by ballot. * * * The person having the great- 
est number of votes shall be President if such number 
be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed." 

The election of our President and Vice President by 
an unprecedented vote of our country — the electoral 
vote being 336, representing 33 States out of the possible 
45 States of our Union, their plurality being approxi- 
mately 2,000,000 and their majority over all candidates 
exceeding 1,000,000 votes, breaking the hitherto invin- 
cible South, capturing the electoral vote of Missouri and 
nearly capturing the electoral vote of Tennessee — ^the 
record-breaking plurality given in the State of Pennsyl- 
vania, approximately 500,000, together with the record- 
breaking plurality given throughout our Union of 
gtjjtes— our nation — our country — the land of the free 
and of the brave — makes known once again the nations 
of the earth— the sincerity and determination of the 
spirit of the American people, by declaring in no mis- 
taken voice the love of manhood, sincerity, frankness 
justice, love of liberty and courage to enforce our laws, 
so nobly and bravely manifested always, in every instant 
And every act by our true American, our President, 



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Theodore Roosevelt, so magnificently elected as our chief 
executive. 

This grand manifestation of American spirit, by 
American voters, this unprecedented electoral and pop- 
ular vote of our country, was cast in the name of the 
Republican organization, for President Roosevelt and 
Vice President Fairbanks as the candidates of the Repub- 
lican party and most assuredly the Republican party 
should have every consideration in the inauguration of 
the candidates, and the Chairman of the Inaugural Com- 
mittee should and ought to be a Republican, possessing 
the essential qualifications for the office. 

It is probably true, that among this unprecedented 
vote of our country for the respective national candidates 
of the nation, tliere were voters who heretofore had 
belonged to and voted with other than the Republican 
organization, and each and every one of sucli voters is 
entitled to credit for their growth of development and 
display of intelligence to vote, in the interest and wel- 
fare of our country and our common good and prosperity 
to cast their vote with the Republican organization of 
our country, and such voters will receive just and due 
consideration and generosity from the Republican party, 
yet we must be just to ourselves and to others before we 
are or have a right to be generous and courteous, and 
considering the evident facts, that the majority of the 
unprecedented votes given our President and Vice Presi- 
dent were cast by a full vote ol the Republicans of the 
past and a tremendous vote of young men, who con- 
sidered it in the interest of their country, to cast their 



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first vote in the name of tiie Republican organization, 
as Republican voters, by the great majority of the voice' 
of the people of our country, and there is no greater and 
higher power in our country, individual or body of men, 
the proper administration of the laws of our country la 
placed in the hands of the Republican organization, and 
therefore the Chairman of the Inaugural Committee, to 
inaugurate their president and Vice President elect, 
should and ought to be a Republican, possessing the 
essential qualiecations for the office. 

I say in my address delivered on September 8, 1904, 
at the Columbia Theater, on page 7, as follows': Our 
system of government, of the people, delegated by the 
people, and for the equal rights, under the law for each 
and every citizen in the interest of the whole people, 
has long ceased to be an experiment among the nations 
of the world, but will never cease to need the wisdom 
and protection of the people for the wise administration 
of the laws of our country." A copy of this address was 
at the time sent you and its receipt courteously acknowl- 
edged by you. It has been the custom in the past and 
continued by the people of our country to voice their 
desires through respective party organizations, and 
under the Federal Constitution they provide for the 
election of a President and Vice-President, and the can- 
didate for President receiving the greatest number of 
electoral votes, provided he receives a majority over all 
candidates, and the party organization, to which the 
successful candidate for President belongs, is the organ- 
ization which, by the voice of the people, that takes 



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charge of and undertakes to administer the laws of the 
Federal Government of our country in the interest of 
the several State governments, in the interest of the 
whole people, our nation, our country, our Republic. 

The people of our country expect, and of a right ought 
to expect that the leading and chief positions, of honor 
and responsibility, will be filled and occupied by mem- 
bers of the party organization of which the elected Presi- 
dent belongs, although he is considered, believed to be 
and ought to be the President of the whole country, and 
to the best of his ability administer the laws of our 
country in the interest of each and every citizen, and 
upon this principle, lam most respectfully of the opin- 
ion, as a citizen, that the Chairman of the Inaugural 
Committee to inaugurate the President and Vice Presi- 
dent of my country, is a leading honor and a position of 
responsibility that should and of right belongs to a mem- 
of the party which they represent, and in the inaugura- 
tion of you, our President, the Chairman of the Inaugural 
Committee, should be the appointment of a Republican, 
to have this honor. 

Among the many thoughtful and wise announcements 
made by you in your learned speeches, you said yester- 
day in your address made in this city, " I wish to see in 
the average American citizen the development of the 
two sets of qualities which we can roughly indicate as 
sweetness and strength — the qualities on the one hand 
which make the man able to hold his own, and those 
which on the other hand make him jealous for the rights 
of others just as much as his own rights." 



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This is not a desire of, or inteuded to be the view of a 
partisan or as a legal brief of a solicitor for any partic- 
ular individual, but a just and righteous view indicated 
by the voice of the American people, whose voice must 
be respected, due each and every Republican who took 
part in the campaign throughout our country. 
Yours most respectfully, 

G. W. Drew. 



White House, Washington, November 21, 1904. 
My Dear Sir : 

Your letter of the 21st instant addressed to the Presi- 
dent has been received, and by his direction it has been 
referred to Chairman Cortelyou for consideration. 
Very truly yours, 

Wm. Loeb, Jr., 
Secretary to the President. 
Mr. G. W. Drew, 

620 F street N. W., 

Washington, D. C. 



November 23, 1904. 
Hon. George B. Cortelyou. 
Chairman of the National Republican Committee, 
Care Hon.WM. Loeb, Secretary to the President, 

White House, City. 
Dear Sir : I most courteously ask your kind con- 
sideration of my views as a citizen andjesideut of this 
District, on what constitutes a republican. 

So far as the consideration of an appointment ot 
Chairman of an Inaugural Committee, to Inaugurate 
a President and Vice President of America, elected 
by the people of this country, as the candidate of the 



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Republican organization aside from the essential qualifi- 
cations he should possess, the first consideration when it 
is determined that the individual considered for ap- 
pointment is fully qualified to undertake this important 
oflBce of honor and responsibility, is that he should and 
ought to be a member or party who has been promi- 
nently identified and used all his qualifications in the 
interest of the said organization in the past, in the 
present, and desires to continue his record in the 
future, all of which he should stand ready jto personally 
declare, which his record can confirm beyond question 
of doubt in the minds of intelligent and reasonable men. 
Yours most respectfully, 

G. W. Drew. 



Washington, D. C, November 26, 1904. 
My Dear Sir : Your letter of the 23d instant has been 
received, and I beg to state in reply that I have fully 
noted what you say. 

Very truly yours, 

Geo. B. Cortelyou. 
Mr. Geo. W. Drew, 
620 F street N. W., 
Washington, D. C. 



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